Researchers unveil histone-based age predictors, offering a new window into epigenetic aging and its shared patterns across ...

Histone modification can also attract DNA methyltransferases to initiate cytosine methylation, which in turn can reinforce histone modification patterns conducive to silencing. Experiments in ...

In early embryogenesis, DNA is largely devoid of methylation (top left ... cascade (activity illustrated by green stars) whereby histone H3K9 is sequentially deaceylated and then methylated ...

The epigenetic modification, DNA methylation, is characterized by 5-methylcytosine (5-mC) and found in specific genomic ...

With ready access to DNA information ... researchers have built a hypothesis that histone H3 lysine-4 methylation is required for gene activation. However, it has been surprisingly difficult ...

Catch up quick: Epigenetics — the "editing" or regulation of gene expression through chemical modifications, like DNA methylation or histone modification — is emerging as a powerful tool in ...